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Rock, the substrata, of the democratic party. if you're willing to dismiss their interests in deference to what you think is an elusive white volter who might be outraged, ostracized or feel an outcast because you're paying too much attention to this issue, you are misreading the tea leaves. >> i don't mean to interrupt you. let's listen now knot town hall because apparently there are folks expressing themselves in the audience. >> so please, please, let's be respectful. >> so, one last question for mayor pete and chief scott. how will you keep the community informed in regards to this process...

Or maybe even the breaking point for so many people in the community who have said, we want matters addressed, we haven't been able to get that. perhaps this is a start, says the mayor, or is this, you know, underscoring a really big problem there? >> reporter: yeah, my colleague, vanessa and i spent some time really digging into pete buttiegieg's record handling the police department for his eight years as mayor. what you're seeing now in that town hall is reflected in what we discovered and what we found from other people in the community, and it's tension, racial tension in south bend aroun...

Of town hall meeting underway, and that gentleman said he got a big no from the city. and so folks are upset about the most recent police-involved shooting involving a white officer and a black man. there was also a shooting that took place at a bar this morning that the mayor did touch on, but again, the mayor has said he can't give any detail about the investigations underway, but he says as soon as he gets information, the intention is to release as much information as possible and as soon as he can. he did receive some applause there, but now people from the audience are expressing their f...

Nerves of the people? i'll tell you how to do it, by not dismissing the legitimate concerns they have on a daily basis where, because they have been unheard, now it comes to this convergence point where it is spilling over, where the nerves are frayed, where the calmness has been dismissed. so yes, the mayor has a lot of spl splaining to do. it is going abysmally. it's out of his hands, he makes sporadic enter veengss, but it doesn't cause him to have a moral korea tichlt to address it beyond legality. don't just receive into niches of legality, speak to the broad sweeping problems confronting...

Has happened on several occasions. so for the mayor to be addressing this from an executive leadership in that city is one thing, but this is a microcosm of what's taking place nationally. and he's running for the presidency. how he handles this -- >> i agree. >> -- will be measured far differently from because he is running for national office. do you agree? >> i agree. certainly this is a test of his executive leadership and what he does in a difficult volatile situation. obviously the president of the united states has to make decisions like that every day. you know, what i can share is how...